Joëlle Anthony

    J. M. Kelly

Welcome to My Blog

The Cabin Reveal!

Finally! Welcome to Chateau Joelle, where the paint on the walls is creme brule, the floor is Cabernet, and it was built by a Frenchman! http://youtu.be/ENS-vFPcmL4 But much to my agent's relief, the writing will all be in English!

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Grocery Store Musings

The other night I was at the grocery store and the man in front of me...a grown man, with grey hair (in other words...not a twenty-something) was purchasing 2 boxes of frozen mac & cheese, a package of hotdogs, and some pepperoni sticks. Sometimes, when I see what...

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Racy & Pacy!

Another great blurb for The Right & the Real! I read R & R through in one large gulp.  It is marvelously gripping, racy and pacy. - John Rowe Townsend, author of Noah's Castle, The Islanders, and more than twenty other books for young readers.

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Author Pic?

I'm kind of wishing this was my new author pic for The Right & the Real. I guess I'll have to write another book. Photo © Victor Anthony 2011

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Veggie Egg Wraps

So I promised you all I'd be making some changes to the blog and sharing more about my life and less about writing. Cooking is a huge part of my life, and I love to experiment in the kitchen. We are strict vegetarians and vegan wannabes (except eggs, which we happily...

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Congratulations to Iain Lawrence

Please join me in congratulating my friend, the wonderful author Iain Lawrence. Not only does his brand new book The Winter Pony come out today, but last week, Iain was awarded the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature. Isn't this one of the greatest covers...

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Cabin Update #5

Things were dormant here for the month of October, but... http://youtu.be/RhTv0cvXkPQ in between breaks for chocolat chaud and scones with raspberry jam and coconut cream, Patrick's kicking butt now! Check it out!

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Hava a bouncy Halloween!

Rabbit rushed through the mist at the noise, and it suddenly turned into Tigger; a Friendly Tigger, a Grand Tigger, a Large and Helpful Tigger, a Tigger who bounced, if he bounced at all, in just the beautiful way a Tigger ought to bounce. -A. A. Milne

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I love this idea

In the past, I haven't been political on this blog at all. Now I'm making a few changes to it, and I don't mind bringing up an occasional controversial item. I'm terribly interested in the Occupy movement, but I'm not a bandwagon sort of person, so I'm watching it,...

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A Local Economy

I'm pretty interested in this #Occupy movement. I don't agree with everything everyone's doing because I think some people have their own agenda. I also think as a movement, we need to be careful about demanding exactly what the 1% wants - golbalization of banks,...

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Change is Happening

For a while now, I've been planning to change the focus of this blog, but life has gotten in the way. When I started out, it was a book review site. When everyone and their cat started book review sites, and they were all willing to put a lot more effort into it than...

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No regrets….

I learned a lot about my best friend Kelly today from all her other best friends who came from far and near for her celebration of life. Also from her family. And while I lament the short time we had together, there is one thing I know for absolute certain, which...

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The Nevil Shute conference

As you know, I went to Seattle to speak at the Nevil Shute International Conference. I've put my keynote speech up on youtube (in three parts). I don't know if anyone is actually interested, but I thought it was really fun, so why not share it. For some reason, the...

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While I am traveling…

While I am traveling, Patrick has been building! Look, it's a Hobbit door! Okay, not really, he will cut that out so I can fit through it, but still, very exciting stuff going on while I'm away. Luckily, the husband is there to send me updates!   The pictures make it...

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